The New World Encyclopedia defines an Institutional Repository as an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating, in digital form, the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.
For a university, this includes materials such as journal articles, book chapters, conference reports and digital versions of theses and dissertations.
The real benefit of an institutional repository is that it is accessible by everyone, even members of the public. A repository provides a window to the world of academic research and acts as an excellent method of publicity for your work.
Resources to identify research repositories:
DORAS is Dublin City Universities Open Access Institutional Repository, providing free, fully compliant, online access to research publications and theses from DCU.
DORAS appear at the top of the results pages for Google, Google Scholar and many other popular search engines.
Accepted material:
Benefits of utilising DORAS to increase your research impact and visibility
Methods of Uploading Materials
DORAS is fully indexed in Google and other search engines, therefore greatly increasing the visibility of your research.